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Making these radio folks pay their own fines seems fair to me

I agree.

I got my Class A broadcast license just as the licensing requirements for on-air people were dropped......yet still at a time when the on air people were held accountable for what they said on air.

It's interesting to note that the "shock jock" wave started shortly after the on air personalities no longer had to adhere to the standards the stations did.

I got mine in 1989. Still have it somewhere. Problem is that you don't even need a Class A Broadcast license anymore to be on the air. In fact any station engineer you try to hand them to these days seems a tad lost about what to do with it.

yet still at a time when the on air people were held accountable for what they said on air.

I admit I don't know all the ins and out of radio broadcasting .. and I'm not saying that they can't be shock jocks

But how about some of these radio folks take responsibility for their OWN actions??

When my son was 5, he came home from school one day and said, "MOM! I learned the bad 'F' word today!"

I said, "Fine, don't ever use it around me or Dad, we don't like to hear it. And don't teach your sister, okay? She's too little to watch her mouth."

He was still all excited. "Do you want to see me spell it? I can write it!"

I told him I knew how to write it too, and I didn't want to look at it.

He said, "I'll write real tiny!" I said, no, I don't like to read it OR hear it. He asked if he could write it in the dirt. I said that God could see it, but if he wanted to show God, he could go right ahead. He looked up to a clear sky and decided not to.

Now, haha, he has kids of his own that age. I'm sure he's had to deal with the situation his own way...point is, the language is juvenile. Something a kid does. Something that entertains a kid, not an adult. It's boring, and rude to an adult.

I'm sure that the target audience isn't an adult group, here, instead, it's kids...no matter what the shock jocks say about aiming for an adult audience, the only people who would be entertained would be kids, and I don't think people ought to be teaching nasty stuff to kids.

Just my opinion.